Michelle Duster

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Biography of Michelle Duster

Michelle Duster is an author, speaker, educator, and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells. Her most recent works include Ida B. the Queen and anthologies Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism and Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls. Michelle was involved in having a major downtown Chicago street renamed to IDA B WELLS DRIVE in 2018 and worked with a committee to develop a monument in honor of her great-grandmother, which was completed in 2021 and located on the land where the Ida B. Wells Homes once stood in Chicago.

Learn more at Michelle Duster’s official website.



Six Books by Michelle Duster


Book Cover Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader by Michelle Duster

Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth

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Book Cover Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster

Ida B. the Queen

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Book Cover Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism by Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira

Impact

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Book Cover Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018) by Michelle Duster

Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018)

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Book Cover Shifts: An Anthology of Women’s Growth Through Change by Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira

Shifts

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Book Cover Tate and His Historic Dream by Bernard C. Turner and Michelle Duster

Tate and His Historic Dream

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